[ovs-dev] [PATCH/RFC] ovs-ctl: do not attempt to restore flows when called with --delete-bridges

[Gurucharan Shetty]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Simon Horman
<simon.horman at netronome.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:25:22AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Simon Horman
>> <simon.horman at netronome.com> wrote:
>> > When called with --delete-bridges saved flows cannot be restored as the
>> > bridges to which they belong no longer exist. This results in the following
>> > error messages on restart.
>> >
>> > ovs-ofctl: br0 is not a bridge or a socket
>> > Restoring saved flows ... failed!
>> >
>> > Although there is no effect of this error other than the message
>> > it seems worth avoiding. This patch does so by skipping saving of flows
>> > when --delete-bridges is in effect.
>> >
>> > As flows are no longer saved when --delete-bridges is in effect
>> > a side-effect of this change is that restart may be faster when
>> > there are many flows.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>
>> Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
>>  (I will apply this in a few hours, if no one else has any comments)
>
> Thanks.
>
> I am wondering if this could be considered branch-2.x and in particular
> branch-2.4. It appears that the patch applies cleanly to all branch-2.x
> branches.

Okay. I cherry-picked it to 2.4 and 2.3. If you need further
backports, let me know.